Good. Glad to see it. First I heard about it. It didn't get as much play as
their knocking of Cuba for the executions. Too bad they didn't emphasize this
stance  when they did the knocking.
Thanks.


"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:

> ZNet | Central American And Caribbean
>
> Statement to the World
> by Many Authors; May 02, 2003
>
> To the conscience of the world
>
> The international order has been violated as a consequence of the invasion
> against Iraq. A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of
> understanding, debate and mediation amongst countries. This power has
> invoked a series of unverified reasons in order to justify its invasion.
>
> Unilateral action has led to massive loss of civilian life an devastation
> of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity.
>
> We only possess our moral authority, with which we appeal to world
> conscience in order to avoid a new violation of the principles, which
> inform and guide the global community of nations. At this very moment, a
> strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has
> been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for
> an invasion. Therefore, we call upon citizens and policy makers to uphold
> the universal principles of national sovereignity, respect of territorial
> integrity and self-determination, essential to just and peaceful
> co-existence among nations.
>
> Mexico City, may day 2003
>
> Signed Initially By:
>
> Leopoldo Zea
> Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
> Miguel León Portilla
> Andrés Henestrosa
> María Rojo
> Jaime Labastida
> Víctor Flores Olea
> Federico Álvarez
> Gilberto López y Rivas
> Pablo González Casanova
> Signed afterwards by the Nobel Prize Winners:
> Rigoberta Menchú
> Nadine Gordimer
> Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
> Gabriel García Márquez
>
> Signed also by ZNet Associated Writers and Friends
> Michael Albert
> Noam Chomsky
> James Petras
> Tariq Ali
> Eduardo Galeano
> Edward S. Herman
> Richard B. Du Boff
> Nikos Raptis
> William Blum
> David Barsamian
> Leslie Cagan
> Tanya Reinhart
> Katha Pollitt
> Robert Jensen
> Saul Landau
> Patrick Bond
> Will Doherty
> Adele Oliveri
> Suren Moodliar
> Danny Glover
> Marta Harnecker
> William Blum
> And signed also by:
> Mario Benedetti
> Ernesto Cardenal
> Oscar Niemeyer
> Harry Bellafonte
> Antonio Gades
> Volodia Teitelboim
> José Balmes
> Jorge Enrique Adoum
> Thiago de Melo
> Daniel Viglietti
> Pino Solanas
> Jorge Sanjinés
> Luisa Valenzuela
> Luis Sepúlveda
> Abelardo Castillo
> Sylvia Iparraguirre
> Fernando García
> Eduardo Mignogna
> Tristan Bauer
> Eduardo Pavlovsky
> Norman Brisky
> Noé Jitrik
> Mempo Giardinelli
> Miguel Bonasso
> Andrés Rivera
> Emir Sader
> Atilio Borón
> Arcira Argumedo
> Gianni Miná
> Claude Couffon
> Roy Brown
> Paul Estrade
> Hebe de Bonafini
> Santiago García
> Ariel Dorfman
> Claudia Korol
> Nelson Osorio
> Hildebrando Pérez
> Giulio Girardi
> Piero Vivarelli
> Juan Antonio Hormigón
> Rosa Vicente
> Deonisio da Silva
> Henri Alleg
> Fernando Aínsa
> Danny Rivera
> Pablo Marcano
> Armando Gnisci
> Margaret Randall
> Heinz Dietrich Steffan
> Angela Correa
> Miguel Vayo
> Horacio González
> Liliana Herrero
> Dolly Oussi
> Rodolfo Hermina
> Jane Franklin
> Mamani Mamani
> Néstor Cohen
> Manuel Cabieses Donoso
> Claufe Rodrigues
> Alessandra Riccio
> Rosa María Robles
> Mayté Pinero
> Bia Falbo
> Tony Ryan
> Brian Willson
> Jorge Pixley
> Ivana Jinkings
> Evaristo Villar
> Miguel Urbano
> Joao Pedro Stedile
> Ana Esther Ceceña
> Rosy Zúñiga
> Stefaan Declercq
> Ricardo Gebrim
> Raúl Zibechi
> María Poumier
> Rosalyn Baxandall
> Nancy Rice
> Louis Segal
> Víctor Heredia
> Beth Carvalho
> Vera de Abreu Figuereido
> Nelson Rodrigues Filho
> Marilia Barbosa
> Mauricio Figueredo
> María José Zack
> Arthur Poerner
> Rodolfo Livingston
> James D. Cockcroft
> Teotonio Dos Santos
> Jean Carey Bond
> Abelardo Castillo
> Néstor Kohan
> Roxanne Dumbar Ortiz
> Eduardo Auer
> Alberto Pablo Ruiz
> Alejandra Beatriz Camba
> Rosa Ma. D´ Alesio de Velarde
> Matías Scaglione
> Ana de Mario
> Cuauhtemoc Amescua
> Beatriz Palacios
> Carlos Carvajal
> Patricia Barbieri
> Héctor Celano
> Francisco de Alentar
> Beatriz Kajt
> Julio Carabeli
> Lita Stantic
> Chude Allen
> David Barkham
> Fernando Quilodrán
> Daniel Randazo
> Francisco Alday Torre
> Alicia Jrapko
> Peter Ranis
> Gerardo D. Etcheverry
> Michael Gasser
> Diego Muñoz
> Gervasio Espinosa
> José L. Ronconi
> Martín de Mauro
> Rina Bertacani
> Roberto Curie
> Inés Izaguirre
> Austin Hingey
> Diego Muñoz
> Abelardo Castillo
> Sylvia Ipaguirre
> Carlos Zamorano
> Graciela Rosenblum
> Enrique Rajchenberg
> Gudrun Lekensdorf
> Carlos Lekensdor
> Alicia Pelliza
> Carlos Sbriller
> Anna Escudero Baltasar
> Patricio A Brodsky
> Francisco Calderón Sánchez de Roja
> Cristina Barros Valero
> Marco Buenrrostro
> Veitia Iddia
> Cecilia Fridman
> Leslie Hoag Hope
> Coriún Aharonian
> Alfonso Sastre
> Uzma Aslam Khan
> Tununa Mercado
> Alicia Castellanos Guerrero
> Mario Casartelli
> Simón J. Ortiz
> Alejandro Stuart
> Josefina Morales Ramírez
> Renato Prada Oropeza
> Felipe Lampero
> Fernando Butazzoni
> Raúl Ariza
> René Benedicto

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